antonianum

Updated: July 17, 2025

If, in the midst of so much agitation, the power of the Lord evidently protected the priest whom he had chosen, that priest, nevertheless, in resisting, suffered all that it was possible to suffer, and overcame, by his priestly energy, those for whom were in store other and ulterior defeats.” ST. CYPRIAN, Epist. LII, ad Antonianum.

Æneas MacDonell Dawson - Pius IX. And His Time